[mythtv-users] frontend won't shutdown on a combinded FE/BE

[Michael Watson]

On 29/09/2012 3:38 AM, stinga wrote:
> On 28/09/12 09:49, Gordon Taylor wrote:
>> On 28/09/12 20:06, stinga wrote:
>>> On 28/09/12 08:34, stinga wrote:
>>>> I am using linhes as my base for mythtv and I would like it to 
>>>> shut-down when not in use.
>>>> It never does though.
>>>>
>>>> I am using mythwelcome and at the moment it says idle next 
>>>> recording in 4 hours and it will just sit there doing.
>>>> What can I look at to try and work out why it won't shutdown? 
>>> Never mind,
>>>
>>> I will upgrade first to latest linhes release which will give me a 
>>> newer mythtv release.
>>> Lets see if that does anything to help.
>>>
>> I am not sure exactly what you are wishing to do, or why you would 
>> wish to. I am not sure that one can shut down the front end on a 
>> standalone machine. There is an option in the menu to put the front 
>> end into Standby mode.
>>
>> It is the backend which is giving that Idle, next recording in four 
>> hours message.
>
> Hmm, I meant backend of course!
>
MBE or SBE?

No, Frontend will not shutdown automatically by itself (you have to 
devise a way to do this yourself, search this list, you will find a 
couple of examples to shutdown mythfrontend cleanly).

Have you looked through http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythwelcome